Welcome to week twelve of the 2019 Heart of Christmas blog hop.
This week I’ve used the Perfectly Plaid Bundle (which includes the Pine Tree Punch and its co-ordinating Perfectly Plaid Photopolymer Stamp Set) to make a silver and white Christmas card.
I’ve used two neat little tricks that you may not realise you can do with your punches and your stamp sets.
The secret to both my tricks…Post It notes!
Did you notice the two smaller trees sitting between the three larger trees on my card? All five trees have been punched using the same Pine Tree Punch, so how did I get two different sizes?
After I punched my tree out I placed the tip of the tree onto the sticky part of a post it note.
The post it note gives me something to hold so I can place the punched tree back into the punch, line it up again and then punch out a smaller tree from the same shape.
The photo below shows how I did this.
Here’s how the two punched shapes look side by side. On the right is the tree punched out once and on the left is the smaller tree created by punching the shape out twice. How cool is that!
As well as different sized trees I used a mixture of papers for my card today, stamping two of them in the Silvery Shimmer Delicata Metallic Ink before punching them out as well as using silver foil sheets and shimmery white cardstock. I love the look of silver and white together.
My card is finished off with a strip of Silver 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon and a Merry Christmas sentiment stamped in Silvery Shimmer Delicata Metallic Ink onto Whisper White cardstock.
I die cut my sentiment with the smallest Stitched Shape Rectangle and layered it over a rectangle of shimmery white card stock die cut out with the next largest Stitched Shape Rectangle.
My second cool technique using Post It notes on this card is masking the sentiment for my card.
If you look at the images on the Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set below you’ll see the bottom right sentiment says “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” but I only wanted to stamp the Merry Christmas for this card.
I covered up the “and a Happy New Year” section of the sentiment with a post it note BEFORE I inked up my stamp and then removed the post it note before stamping onto the card stock. This ensured I only stamped the “Merry Christmas” section of the sentiment.
A bow of silver thread completes my silver and white Christmas card.
The lovely Claire Daly is hosting our Heart of Christmas blog hop this week – to see what the rest of the team have made this week you can visit Claire’s page here.
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Another favourite colour combination of mine Cathy – Silver and White, with sparkles added too. And thank you for sharing your tip on getting a smaller tree using the pine tree punch – clever girl! x
Your card is fabulous! The silver and white colour combo is gorgeous, and I love how you’ve cropped the trees – I will have to remember that trick!
Wow!!! Thanks so much for the clever tip for getting so much more out of the pine tree punch. Genius really. Can’t wait to try it out. And your card is gorgeous too Catherine. Nothing beats silver and white with some bling.
Love your silver and white colour combo, Cathy; always so elegant. Great tip about the tree punch, too.
I just love your cards Cathy they are just elegant and stunning. Fantastic tips too using the post it notes!
Fantastic card, Cathy, and a wonderful tip for using that tree punch. It looks great with two different size trees!
I love your card and your style and your tips! I look forward to the Christmas hop every year!
Love your card Catherine, lots of bling. I like the tip for making the trees smaller.
Beautiful card Cathy, such a great idea with making the smaller tree and I love all of the silver and white.
Love love love your card Cathy, may I case it please xx
Of course you may Brenda!
Well that’s a bit clever! Just love this tip for cutting the smaller trees, and also love your gorgeous card with all it’s texture and sparkle. Thanks for playing along in week 12 Heart of Christmas.